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The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

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David Bailey
Age: 87
Born: 1938
Born: January 2
Fashion Photographer
Film Director
Photographer
David Royston Bailey
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I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!
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I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
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I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
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It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
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I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
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The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.
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You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.
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I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.
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Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.
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I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.
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A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
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In France they don't think I'm difficult.
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People want security in this insecure world.
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I always go for simplicity.
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.
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Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
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The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.
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I never set out to be a photographer.
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Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
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